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...Keyboarding Agency," HSA's first new program in the past two years, will employ about 10 students to type papers on the computers that are used for the agency's "Let's Go" travel books, said HSA President Andrea Silbert...
...public opinion and its expression. Harvard, as an institution which studies many facets of modern society in great depth, has a perfect right to express its findings and opinions to the world. It has an obligation to do so. Who better than the students and teachers of Harvard to employ this right? It is risky, of course, to use the word "right" so freely. By putting this word in quotations, as well as "worthy," "making a statement," "moral," and "consciousness," Mr. Green throws suspicion on anyone who uses these words with good intent...
According to the ITC, prices of imported footwear could rise by some 15% in the U.S. in the first year alone. To employ 22,000 new shoeworkers at an average salary of $14,000 would cost the U.S. $26,300 per job. Shoe quotas would hurt developing countries, which are struggling to earn foreign exchange to service their U.S. debts. Washington would be in the awkward position of demanding that Brazil meet its debt obligations while depriving it of the means...
...Institute was to bribe the rector. "Before Shevardnadze," Borodin says, "everything could be bought or sold." She adds, "He was very oppressive, but he oppressed people fairly." Shevardnadze's toughness earned him some enemies. Borodin recalls an assassination attempt in the early '70s that prompted the party secretary to employ bodyguards. Shevardnadze has been implicated in reports of torture in Georgia prisons. In documents published in the U.S. nine years ago by Georgian dissidents, he was linked to special "pressure cells," where inmates were assaulted by other prisoners with the blessing of the authorities...
...recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...